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DescriptionJ.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
2011-04-12 15:26:07 UTC
2. What is the nature and description of the request?
Customer has requested that Red Hat rebase Firefox to Firefox-4 in RHEL 6.
3. Why does the customer need this? (List the business requirements here)
Firefox 4 is based on the Gecko 2.0 Web platform. This release features
JavaScript execution speeds up to six times faster than the previous version,
new capabilities for Web Developers and Add-on Developers such as hardware
accelerated graphics and HTML5 technologies, and a completely revised user
interface.
4. How would the customer like to achieve this? (List the functional
requirements here)
Rebase Firefox to Firefox-4 in RHEL 6.
5. For each functional requirement listed in question 4, specify how Red Hat
and the customer can test to confirm the requirement is successfully
implemented.
Provide test packages to the customer, internal testing.
6. Is there already an existing RFE upstream or in Red Hat bugzilla?
Firefox 4 exists upstream.
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/new/
7. How quickly does this need resolved? (desired target release)
RHEL 6.2 is the desired release.
8. Does this request meet the RHEL Inclusion criteria (please review)
Yes.
9. List the affected packages
Firefox
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Firefox has been upgraded to version 5.0, which provides a number enhancements over the previous version.
Package: firefox-5.0-1.el6
Latest Crash: Sun 31 Jul 2011 01:20:18 PM
Command: /usr/lib64/firefox-5/firefox -new-tab ''
Reason: Process /usr/lib64/firefox-5/firefox was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV)
Comment: None
Bug Reports:
During normal browsing. Also some videos (not sure what player, but something akin to flowplayer) show up with big square sections going transparent and showing background white and flashing.
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-Firefox has been upgraded to version 5.0, which provides a number enhancements over the previous version.+Firefox has been upgraded to version 7.0, which provides a number enhancements over the previous version.
Comment 22Elio Maldonado Batiz
2011-09-27 16:22:00 UTC
*** Bug 652630 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 24Elio Maldonado Batiz
2011-10-06 21:39:34 UTC
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Old Contents:
Firefox has been upgraded to version 7.0, which provides a number enhancements over the previous version.
Why is there still no Firefox 8 in RHEL 6.2? Your marketing blah-foo e.g. at
http://www.redhat.com/rhel/compare/ says, that you are going to update Firefox
during the RHEL lifetime. Even RHEL 4 ships Firefox 3.6, but RHEL 6.2 does not
ship a current Firefox somehow?! Or is this only marketing-crap nowadays? :-(
Comment 32Andrius Benokraitis
2011-12-09 15:48:35 UTC
Robert, for your information:
https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-62747
Note the section that states:
"Red Hat will continue with its policy of releasing and supporting new versions of Firefox when new versions become available and *reach suitable stability* for inclusion in Red Hat Enterprise Linux."
Feel free to open a Red Hat Support case against your paid production RHEL subscriptions with your comments/requests.
Thank you!
Andrius.
Just to note that looks like Firefox 10 has been agreed by mozilla to be a long term support (of 1 year) so might be worthwhile rebasing to that for RHEL5/6...
In addition looks like Firefox 3.6 will be end of lifed and lose upstream security fixes as of around April 24th...
Info is here:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Enterprise/Firefox/ExtendedSupport:Proposal